Maceió's birth certificate

• Autor(a) principal: Campello, Maria de Fátima de Mello Barreto
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Outros Autores: Fortes, Cynthia Nunes da Rocha, Ferrare, Josemary Omena Passos
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Urbana (Campinas)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/urbana/article/view/8648582
• topic: Maceió e Jaraguá. Cartografia histórica. Séculos XVII a XIX. Antonio Jozeph de Lemos.; Maceió and Jaraguá. Historical cartography. 17th-19th century. Antonio Jozeph de Lemos.

Centered on the a few years discovered Planta e explicação daz enciadaz de Iaragôa e Pajusara (circa 1757) and ascribing to it the status of “birth certificate” of Maceió, this study proposes to build a historical narrative of the foundation of the city, highlighting the iconographic documents and, from them, extracting reflections on both the city itself and the cartographers’ visual practices. The structuring of the settlement in two nuclei, one on highground and another on the shore, is discussed by confronting the birth certificate-plan with other iconographic documents from the 17th, 18th and 19thcenturies. Finally, it is sought to rethink the historiography of the city through this moment of Maceió’s birth and foundation.